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Among Friends

Learning from Our History, and Making Our Own

[…] have joined us in a project to reexamine the whitewashed history many of us learned about Quakers, slavery, race relations, […]

Gabriel Ehri

Features

Our Drop in the Wave of Liberation

A visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Lauren Brownlee

November 2023 Books

We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel AND Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?: Redefinition and the Myth of the “Collective Jew”

[…] most challenging books I have read recently are Eric Alterman’s history of the ongoing U.S. debates over Israel–Palestine and Antony […]

Reviewed by Steve Chase

October 2022 Books

Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice

[…] out to only about a month per year. Dancing with History also reminds me at times of another George—Fox’s Journal, […]

Reviewed by Doug Gwyn

November 2020 Books

Humankind: A Hopeful History

[…] malfeasance, colonialist fake news, and journalistic sensationalism. His view of history is that millennia ago, humankind fell into the honey-trap […]

Reviewed by Bruce Hawkins

March 2020 Book Reviews

Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History (Third Edition)

[…] for all Friends, if not all Americans. It recounts the history of nonviolence in our country, beginning with early Friends, […]

Reviewed by David Austin

November 2019 Books

Losing Earth: A Recent History

[…] pages. $25/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Nathaniel Rich’s book Losing Earth: A Recent History is a convincing story of the history of climate […]

Reviewed by Phil Favero

Quaker Book Reviews

Friends Past and Present: The Bicentennial History of Cincinnati Friends Meeting (1815–2015)

[…] Amazon Store Fortunate indeed are those meetings with a published history for new and seasoned Friends to learn the meeting’s […]

Compiled by Karie Firoozmand

Quaker Author Podcast

Fostering Empathy Through Fiction Writing: A Conversation with Peterson Toscano

[…] Kelley: in his 90s and is kind of the grumpy history professor who gives prepared ministry, which is young Jordan […]

Martin Kelley

November 2025 Books

The First American Quaker Discipline: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Rules of Discipline and Practice from 1704

[…] Haines’ own small publishing company, reflect David’s interest in Quaker history and are a model of both painstaking investigation and […]

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm